The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-05
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wnEELitNa.. ". VA, SEPTEMBER 1881.
soldlsrs' Reunions.

Last week there was !ATRely alenaed
and enthusiastic reunion Of ex.Confeder.
alto soldiers at Romney, Hampshire coun.
ty, in this Stale. In another column we
give sympathetic report Of the very sue.
cesstul affair taken from the South Branch
hnielligncer, publinhed on tho spot.
It will be observed that the Confederate
General Imboden was there, and that tho
ve.erans OF the gray rallied round their old
commander; that Tho "rebel yell rang
slong the South Branch Valley; tina. the
old soldiera and their friendu were happy,
and that nobody was hurt. We suppose
1t was within tho ingenuity oil somebody
In Rsmney to do something which would
nave given great olrenso to those ex.Con-
iedera.e soldiers, md yet, to tho credit Of
that pretty little town and its cordial peo.
pie, nobody did IN ugly Or inhcrpltablo
thing.
The INTELLldgYcEh is firmly convinced
that tbs men who met at Romney sup.
ported with their arna talae and dan.
gerous principle; but they did 1t as We.
lianlly es any mea who ever marched to
the tap Of tho drum, and they would be
less than human, .leaa than American, il
ttey found no ploaaure in meeting with
each other, living over tho old hardships
and ksepiAs alive old i,isndshipa.
It has no! occurred 10 any newspaper,
Democratic, Republican, Mugwump OF
Pfohibi:ioaist, TO suggest that their meet
Ing or their speaking constituted launt-
ing Of the "bloody shirt" Neither has 1t
been said Of them that they were only the
bummets and camp.folowcrs Of tho brave
armies Of the Coniederacy. II,
A Georgia State Fair is to open in Ma
con Octobar 2Gsh. No effort Is being spared
to make the occasion memorable, rs wit.
noss tie following dispatch from Macon:
: On That day there will DO grand re-
union OF MI the surviving ex. Confederate
soldiers who Can get there. President
Northen, Of the State Fair, arrived to-
night from Beauvoir. He found Mr., Davis
eutIe,ipg q little from the wound received
in his foot In the Mexican war. Mr., Davis
R,id he would be delighted 10 once ggain
look on THE surviving Confederate vet
craig. 5 Z, 81.
Mr.. Davis YES captured near Macon.
He was alwgyaa fGvorite hero, and his &C.
cepteuce oil the invitation has SO. the pso.
pie wild with Joy. He will review the
ve!erans in the State Fair Park. Il
The city will DO decorated profusely and
the main gtreet Intersections will be COW
cred with arches. This will probably DO
the las. appearance OF Mr.. Dayis before
large gathering Of ex-Coniederate soldiers,
end will be made forever historical in the
South. Many old soldiers have already
written for the entrance Of tho namoa OF
their regiments to join in the grand re-.
union. a railroad rate Of one cent mile
will draw q hundred Thousand people.
Georgia and the South will turn out
en- mR2ae in this probably last public
demonstration to tho head OF tho late
Confederate Government.
This is to be not only the biggeet Con.
federate reunion on record, but "probably
the last public demonstration to the head
olthe late Confederate Government" The
Democratic presa ia neslecting g great op-
portunity to denouncs this gathering and
particularly the "public demonstration to
the head Of tho late Confederate Govern.
ment." aI'
Earnea. efforts. are bsins made to have
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, tho late head Of tho
Confederate Government" present at At
lanta to make. the address Of welcome to
the President Of tho United States.
Wherever MIR. Davis appears he reviyes
old memories. He is himself en- old mem
DRY. The Cleveland prcas is not saying, or
proposing to other people to do, ugly
things because Of this protected meeting Of
a President and an cx-Prea;dent.
Can it DO that tic Cleveland press has
exhausted ilself on the soldiers Of the
Union and their reunions? az,
d. T.